p. 9 | Does It Pay? by O. A. HALL

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 27, 1916

Does It Pay?

By O. A. HALL

O. A. HALL

On entering upon any career in life, one first reckons carefully to determine if the choice he is about to make will bring the desired results. Although Christian organizations were slow to take up foreign mission work, because of lack of confidence in its success, it long ago proved to be one of the most fruitful undertakings.

At the biennial meeting of the East China Mission, held this year at Nanking, a marked growth in the work was seen. The number of delegates seated was three times the number present at the meeting two years before. Reports from all parts of the field were most encouraging, showing that the church membership has more than doubled during the two years, and that our corps of workers has grown from nineteen to fifty-five. Eighty-six persons have been baptized during the last seven months of the year just closing. A good class of inquirers are studying, and we are led to feel that this work pays,—in this life thirty, sixty, and even a hundred fold, and in that to come, eternal life.

Although the work in Shantung Province is new, the early harvest of souls has been good. The northern, or Mandarin-speaking, part of Kiang-su Province, is being entered by evangelists and colporteurs from Anhwei Province, in response to the calls that are coming from many parts of that field, and we expect, by the blessing of the Lord, through the ministry of these devoted workers to gather a large harvest of souls from there this year.